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Passion
Netherlands1486 Posts
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Nizaris
Belgium2230 Posts
On October 25 2012 09:54 ParanoiaDHerO wrote: Can you provide sources for ANY of the things you said or you just hatin' like so many others? It's all in the report if you cared enough to read it. What he said is pretty much undeniable, nothing to do with hate, everything to do with facts, but i guess that won't stop white knights. | ||
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kmillz
United States1548 Posts
On October 25 2012 21:01 Passion wrote: No worries guys, Lance still has a future. + Show Spoiler + [image blocked] ;o Lmao | ||
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Serpest
United States603 Posts
To clarify, I'm talking about this spot in particular, but the whole article sheds light on cycling's history since the 90s. Stage 10 occurred on July 14 and was from Sestrieres to Alpe d'Huez. Nobody had been talking to him. The entire peloton planned to ride slow for the first 100km without telling him. Bassons only heard about this because a mechanic from his team told him. Bassons decided he was "fed up" and decided to ride ahead of the others ("attacked from the start"). As they came to a flat spot, "all of the teams rode together to close me down". As the teams rode by him, they stared at him. [8] " . . . and then Lance Armstrong reached me. He grabbed my by the shoulder, because he knew that everyone would be watching, and he knew that at that moment, he could show everyone that he was the boss. He stopped me, and he said what I was saying wasn't true, what I was saying was bad for cycling, that I musn't say it, that I had no right to be a professional cyclist, that I should quit cycling, that I should quit the tour, and finished by saying [*beep*] you. . . . I was depressed for 6 months. I was crying all of the time. I was in a really bad way." - Bassons, from BBC Radio 5, 2012 10 15[8] Bassons said Armstrong also asked him why he was speaking out; "I told him that I'm thinking of the next generation of riders. Then he said 'Why don't you leave, then?'"[9] Armstrong confirmed the story. On the main evening news on TF1, a national television station, Armstrong said: "His accusations aren't good for cycling, for his team, for me, for anybody. If he thinks cycling works like that, he's wrong and he would be better off going home." | ||
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musai
Canada552 Posts
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applebottomjeans
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jdsowa
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Chunhyang
Bangladesh1389 Posts
On an side note, although I'm impressed by the USADA's efforts, they really come off as jerks. I always get the impression that they're making themselves out as heroes "we're super important!!!" etc. | ||
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Caihead
Canada8550 Posts
On October 26 2012 10:44 musai wrote: Maybe if that Bassons guy wasn't a dick he wouldn't have been shunned. Turning down bribery of 270,000 francs a month for him to do EPO, being the only clean guy on the team is being a dick? No one was talking to him because he gave a shit about integrity in the sport where no one else did and didn't like the whistle blowing. This man deserves the price money of these fraudulent tours. I really want to see what twisted logic you come from to call this guy a dick yet defend the actions of Armstrong. | ||
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Caihead
Canada8550 Posts
On October 24 2012 08:16 KiWiKaKi wrote: Just face the fact that everyone is doping in pro sports! Except the moral few who are systematically shunned and have the public turn their backs on them because the public justifies doping. What a pathetic mentality. | ||
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JimmyJRaynor
Canada17791 Posts
either Lance provides a big time confession to Oprah with a plan on how he'll attempt to make amends. if Lance tries to do the old "deny deny deny".. Oprah will make him look like a complete and total idiot. | ||
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PassiveAce
United States18076 Posts
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Myles
United States5162 Posts
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Nisyax
Netherlands756 Posts
On January 12 2013 03:40 PassiveAce wrote: He probably wouldnt have taken the interview if he doesnt have anything new to say. Money  , but wondering what he is going to say. | ||
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PassiveAce
United States18076 Posts
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peekn
United States1152 Posts
On January 12 2013 03:43 Myles wrote: Yea, I heard he was doing Oprah and immediately thought 'here comes the confession'. I can't see any other reason to do it. You see this time and time again in professional sports where the person denies denies denies then they finally confess. That's probably what is going to happen here I think. I'm really curious on what he is going to do after the fact. A movie or something would be cool. | ||
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Jerubaal
United States7684 Posts
On January 12 2013 03:39 JimmyJRaynor wrote: Lance Armstrong is being interviewed by Ophrah for 90 minutes. either Lance provides a big time confession to Oprah with a plan on how he'll attempt to make amends. if Lance tries to do the old "deny deny deny".. Oprah will make him look like a complete and total idiot. Like she made Marion Jones look like an idiot? Pretty sure it was Oprah that looked like the idiot after that. Everyone knows he did it. Everyone knows that everyone else was doing it too. Livestrong is still a worthy organization. What else should I care about? | ||
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Grumbels
Netherlands7032 Posts
In a few years you can probably find him on the lecture circuit, giving speeches about how doping is bad, he'll be advertised as "reformed athlete Lance Armstrong" and be seen as a hero for giving kids a good example. I very much hope he won't be taken seriously by anyone and won't be allowed to compete again, he did too many bad things to too many people and he very much hurt the sport. He was the worst doper and worst bully out of them all, he is the perfect representative for everything that was (is) wrong with cycling. (also, haha to all the people that defended him in this thread and called it a witch hunt) | ||
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JimmyJRaynor
Canada17791 Posts
where is he hiding his money? | ||
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farvacola
United States18866 Posts
On January 12 2013 04:11 JimmyJRaynor wrote: the big question is.. where is he hiding his money? Somewhere there is a giant warehouse, Raiders of the Lost Ark-style, full to the brim with Livestrong bands, frozen bags of Lance's blood, and cash. | ||
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